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51-671: One of the services was the Cologne – Overath – Gummersbach line, which was opened in 1984 as the Aggertaler on the Agger Valley Railway ( Aggertalbahn , KBS 459 ). For experimental services on the closure-threatened line, Silberling coaches were converted to the then modern interiors of the VT ;628.2 and, like the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn , painted in orange and light grey livery. A café

102-635: A contract with the Cologne-Crefelder Railway Company on 11 November 1859 to take over its route from Cologne to Krefeld on 1 July 1860, making it possible to extend the Left Lower Rhine line to the north with a connection to the Dutch rail network and the Dutch ports. The section to Kleve opened on 1 March 1863. A ten-kilometre continuation of the line over the Griethausen railway bridge and

153-494: A few hours. Eurostar high-speed trains run from Cologne to Paris via Aachen , Liege and Brussels . An international Intercity Express service also operates every two hours during the day on the Brussels–Liege—Aachen–Cologne line, continuing to Frankfurt . With a combined 403 scheduled long-distance arrivals and departures each day at Cologne in the summer timetable of 1989, it was the most important node in

204-408: A hotel. The old station building (which had been only slightly damaged during the war and temporarily repaired) was demolished in 1955. On 23 September 1957, the new station hall with its shell-shaped roof was opened to the design of the architects Schmitt and Schneider. The main station building was built on the northern side of the station following the demolition of an originally built-up area between

255-699: A line for long-distance trains running from London to Berlin and London to Hamburg from Boxtel in the Netherlands via Gennep and Goch to Wesel (the Boxtel Railway ). The Haltern–Venlo section of the Paris-Hamburg Railway , which ran from Venlo via Wesel to Hamburg, crossed in Geldern; this was opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1874. The Rhenish Railway Company opened

306-411: A line from Kempen to Venlo via Kaldenkirchen in 1867. The narrow gauge Geldern District Railway ( Geldernsche Kreisbahn ) was opened in 1901 and 1902 from Kempen via Straelen to Kevelaer to improve access to the agricultural land west of the Left Lower Rhine line; it was closed in 1934. The Meerbusch-Osterath–Cleves section of the Left Lower Rhine line is served by a Regional-Express service,

357-514: A system of "open access" on European high-speed railway lines now permits different rail operators to apply to run high-speed passenger services. DB Fernverkehr have announced their intention to operate a direct ICE service from Cologne to London St Pancras via Brussels and the Channel Tunnel . The proposal, first put forward in 2007, was delayed by Eurotunnel safety regulations which required operators to use trainsets which could be divided in

408-467: A two-storey waiting room building, with easy access to all platforms. The station included four terminating platforms facing east and four facing west on either side of the waiting rooms, with one through platform on the northeast side and one on the southwest side. During the restructuring of the rail tracks in the Cologne area in about 1905–1911 (most notable for the construction of the new South Bridge and

459-668: Is a main line on the left (western) bank of the Rhine in the lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia , running from Cologne to Cleves (Kleve) and formerly via Kranenburg to Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The Cologne– Krefeld section of the line was opened by the Cöln-Crefeld Railway Company in 1855 and is one of the oldest lines in Germany . The 55 km-long section from Cologne via Neuss to Krefeld

510-450: Is electrified and continuously multi-track. The subsequent 65 km-long Krefeld–Kleve section is non-electrified and single-track north of Geldern . The section from Kleve to Nijmegen has been closed since 1991. Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 11 trains run on the line from Cologne to Neuss, partly on separate S-Bahn track, including a separate loop, partly underground, through the Cologne district of Chorweiler . The Left Lower Rhine line

561-692: Is integrated in the Cologne S-Bahn network. From Monday to Friday S-Bahn trains run at 20-minute intervals during the day and at other times usually every 30 minutes. Northwest of the Cologne Hauptbahnhof S-Bahn station is the Köln Hansaring S-Bahn station and to the east is the Köln Messe/Deutz S-Bahn station . All S-Bahn services serving the station, use these two stations. Below Cologne Hauptbahnhof there are two stations of

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612-403: Is the central railway station of Cologne , Germany. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub , with many ICE , Eurostar and Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional Regional-Express , RegionalBahn and local S-Bahn trains. EuroNight and Nightjet night services also call at the station. It has frequent connections to Frankfurt by way of

663-666: The City-Bahn as a train type . In Hanover the Hanover S-Bahn had the honour of running City-Bahn services. The German model train company Märklin has made a model of the "City-Bahn" line for a limited series in 2009. The road number for the engine is BR 218 143-6, and is item number 39182. Additional Silberling passenger cars are also made under item numbers 43808 (3 car set), and 43818 (add on car for 43808 and 39182). de:City-Bahn (Zuggattung) Cologne Hauptbahnhof Köln Hauptbahnhof (English: Cologne Central Station )

714-583: The Cologne Stadtbahn . Stadtbahn stations Dom/Hauptbahnhof station and Breslauer Platz/Hauptbahnhof station are on the same tunnel that runs under the main station making a turn of 120 degrees. The former one is located below the southern end, next to the cathedral, the latter at the northern end where it connects to the bus station. Breslauer Platz/Hauptbahnhof station was relocated and completely redesigned up December 2011. Line 5 has been rerouted from Dom/Hauptbahnhof to Rathaus station to connect with

765-553: The Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line , which starts in southern Cologne. On an average day, about 280,000 travellers frequent the station, making it the fifth busiest station in Germany . The station is situated next to Cologne Cathedral . There is another important station in Cologne, the Köln Messe/Deutz station across the river Rhine , just about 400 metres away from Köln Hauptbahnhof. The stations are linked by

816-713: The Hohenzollern Bridge , a six-track railway bridge with pedestrian and bicycle lanes on each side. Frequent local services connect the two stations. By 1850 there were five stations at Cologne that had been built by different railway companies. On the west bank of the Rhine there were the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company (German, old spelling: Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , BCE ), the Cologne-Krefeld Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Crefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , CCE ) and

867-843: The Niers-Express (RE 10) on the Kleve–Krefeld–Düsseldorf route every 30 minutes during the day and evening from Monday to Friday and hourly on weekends and public holidays. It connects hourly in Krefeld with the Rhein-Münsterland-Express (RE 7) on the Krefeld–Neuss–Cologne– Wuppertal – Hagen – Hamm – Münster – Rheine route. Since the Kleve–Geldern section has only one track, services of the Niers-Express running towards Krefeld have to stop for four minutes at

918-556: The Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , RhE ). On the east bank there were the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (German: Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , BME ) and the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , CME ). In 1854 a controversial decision was taken to locate a new rail and road bridge next to

969-914: The Spyck–Welle train ferry to the Dutch border was opened on 19 April 1865 for freight and on 21 April 1865 for passengers. At the same time the RhE encouraged the Dutch Rhine Railway Company ( Dutch : Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij , NRS) to extend its railway, which already ran from Rotterdam and Amsterdam to Utrecht and Arnhem , to the Dutch–German border. In 1856 the Cologne-Minden Railway Company ( Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , CME) had opened its line to Emmerich via Oberhausen (the Holland route ), but it lacked rail connections to southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This prompted

1020-598: The Dutch North Sea ports via the Kleve–Zevenaar route. In 1912, the tracks to the ramps on both sides of the train ferry were closed. Passengers were instead transferred by steamboat. During World War I the line was reduced to two pairs of trains per day. After the war, the Dutch railways (later formally amalgamated as Nederlandse Spoorwegen , NS) and the German State Railways signed an agreement in relation to

1071-664: The Hohenzollern Bridge is a key bottleneck for rail transport in the Cologne region. Long-distance traffic load is concentrated to and from the east of the station, while regional trains mainly run to and from the west. The connecting lines from Hürth-Kalscheuren and Steinstraße are operating at capacity. Adding extra tracks is hardly possible. Changing the track layout is not possible with the existing signalling. The network will become increasingly congested up to 2030 and beyond. Although its platforms are divided into three sections each, they are still remarkably crowded throughout

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1122-575: The NRS to discuss a rail link via Cleves with the Rhenish railway , which had extended its West Rhine line to Bingen in 1859 to create a connection with the southern German rail network. Both companies attempted to persuade the Dutch government to grant a concession to the Rhenish railway for the construction of a route from Kleve to Nijmegen and Arnhem but failed to change the Dutch government's policy. Even an offer by

1173-539: The Rhenish railway to build at its own expense the big bridges that would have been required over the Waal and the Rhine had no effect. Probably the major concern for the Dutch government was the protection of navigation on the Rhine in the Netherlands and the fact that the majority of the capital of the NRS was controlled by English investors. Until the nationalisation of the company in 1880, all RhE freight and passenger trains ran to

1224-521: The Tunnel in the event of an emergency, allowing passengers to be transported out of the tunnel in two directions. This regulation has now been relaxed, and it was envisaged that DB could begin direct London-Cologne services before the end of 2014. These plans have since been delayed, and services are not expected to start until at least 2018. Cologne-Krefeld Railway Company The Left Lower Rhine line ( German : Linksniederrheinische Strecke )

1275-624: The additional tracks were built on the Hohenzollern bridge for the S-Bahn line. In 2000, a shopping centre was opened at the entry level—including the area under the S-Bahn tracks. The so-called colonnade includes 70 shops and restaurants with over 11,500 square metres (124,000 sq ft) of retail space and 700 employees. At a summit of Deutsche Bahn , the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on 31 March 2010 in Düsseldorf, it

1326-477: The cathedral, following consideration of such proposals as connecting the bridge to an existing freight yard and temporary passenger station on the banks of the Rhine ( Rhine Station ) at the street of Trankgasse, which is to the southeast of the current Hauptbahnhof. It was suggested that carriages could be lowered by lift to the Trankgasse station, but it was quickly realized that the only effective way for connecting

1377-432: The crossing stations of Bedburg-Hau and Weeze. The total time taken by trains running in the opposite direction is eight minutes less. Despite the service's classification as a Regional-Express, the Niers-Express serves all stations between Meerbusch-Osterath and Kleve. The average speed is only 66 km/h. All stations on the line have at least two tracks and can serve as crossing stations. The Rhein-Münsterland-Express

1428-454: The day, and a major extension of the station is impossible because of its historic surroundings. Connections to the local Cologne network Stadtbahn are made by two subterranean stations, Dom/Hbf and Breslauer Platz/Hbf at the respective ends of the station. The station has 11 main line passenger track platforms, of which two are used for S-Bahn services; one of the two subterranean Stadtbahn has two tracks with side platforms ( Dom/Hbf )

1479-411: The first open part of the north-south Stadtbahn tunnel, which is currently under construction. One year later line 5 was lengthened one station from Rathaus to Heumarkt. Formerly, all trains stopped at Dom/Hbf and Breslauer Platz/Hbf , but, as the junction for the new line will be between these stations, line 5 trains only stop at Dom/Hbf , and line 16 trains will only stop at Breslauer Platz/Hbf when

1530-522: The four-track Hohenzollern Bridge), the waiting room building was removed and all the platforms were rebuilt as through platforms. Advantage was taken of the previously unused space beneath the tracks. Only the first and second class waiting rooms in Trankgasse and Johannisstraße (streets) survived World War II and subsequent modifications and are now used as a restaurant and the Alter Wartesaal events centre. For several years after World War II, there

1581-455: The left and right bank line was to create a central station. The city agreed to the proposal in 1857 and made available the ground of the former Botanical garden to the north of the cathedral and on the site of part of the old University of Cologne , suppressed by the French in 1798. The railway track was laid at ground level from the bridge over the Rhine and crossing the street of Eigelstein west of

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1632-570: The line is opened. Currently Dom/Hbf station is served by the following lines (during the day at ten-minute intervals, line 18 at five-minute intervals), but Breslauer Platz/Hbf station is served only by lines 16 and 18: Services are offered by the Cologne Stadtbahn and the Bonn Stadtbahn , often referred to as Stadtbahn Rhein-Sieg after the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS - Rhein-Sieg Transit Authority). Since January 2010,

1683-671: The network of Deutsche Bundesbahn . With 383 scheduled long-distance arrivals and departures, in Deutsche Bahn's timetable of summer 1996, it was the second most important node (after Hannover Hauptbahnhof ). Cologne Hauptbahnhof is also a hub for numerous Regional-Express and Regionalbahn services, mostly serving the station in Cologne every half-hour or hour, but sometime only every two hours: some trains (Kall–Gerolstein) hourly (Gummersbach–Lüdenscheid) 30 min (Bedburg–Horrem on weekdays) 30 (peak)/60 min (Cologne–Bonn) Hourly (Bonn–Bonn-Mehlem) Köln Hauptbahnhof

1734-516: The new space created under the track filled with earth and a new entrance building was built to the design of Georg Frentzen , an architect from Aachen . The foundation stone was laid on 7 May 1892. In 1894, the large tripartite platform hall was completed. The central hall had a roof span of 64 metres (210 ft 0 in) covering today's platforms 2 to 7, and outside it were two 13-metre (42 ft 8 in)-wide aisles for platforms 1 and 8. The 255-metre (836 ft 7 in)-long hall included

1785-463: The operation of rail and ferry services up to 31 August 1926. Around 1930 the tracks between Welle and Elten on the right (northern) bank were dismantled. In contrast, on the left bank passenger services continued until 1960 and freight ran directly to a vegetable oil mill on the Rhine in Spyck until 1987. At that time, the line from Kleve was closed. On 9 September 1865 a further link from Cleves to Nijmegen

1836-403: The other ( Breslauer Platz/Hbf ) has two out of three tracks in service and one side platform and an island platform (both in use). Its IATA code is QKL . Cologne Hauptbahnhof is the hub of many Intercity Express and Intercity lines, mostly serving Cologne every hour or every two hours: Various high-speed services connect most cities in Germany as well as several neighbouring countries in

1887-402: The section from Kleve via Kranenburg to Groesbeek has been used for the operation of draisines for entertainment. Line S 11 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn was put into operation from Cologne Hbf to Köln-Chorweiler on 1 June 1975 as the first S-Bahn line in Cologne. On 22 May 1977, a new section was opened to Köln-Chorweiler Nord , running underground through Chorweiler . In June 1985 this

1938-596: The station at ground level and running through the medieval city wall. The original Central Station (German: Centralbahnhof ) was built beginning in 1857 to the plans of Hermann Otto Pflaume on behalf of the RhE, which had in the same year acquired the BCE. The station was opened on 5 December 1859 together with the Cathedral Bridge (German: Dombrücke , later the site of the Hohenzollernbrücke ). The Central Station

1989-628: The station from the Ruhr region, southern Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Köln Messe/Deutz (tief) station is used by two ICE services on the right bank route. In the past, therefore, a direct connection, such as a moving walkway over the Rhine was considered, but this controversial idea was rejected as too expensive for the time being. The Cologne rail node is at the centre of eleven routes radiating in all directions. More than 280,000 arriving and departing passengers are estimated to use 1,200 trains daily. Cologne Hauptbahnhof, together with

2040-463: The streets of Maximinenstraße, Domstraße, Hofergasse and Hermannstraße and the shifting of Goldgasse with the building of Breslauer Platz as a second entrance plaza. In the course of building the S-Bahn up until 1991, the entire railway line, railway station and the Hohenzollern bridge were supplemented by two independent S-Bahn tracks. First, in 1975 two additional platforms were built (10 and 11) and then

2091-417: The western approach tracks, as will be necessary. Cologne Hauptbahnhof is one of the hubs of European long-distance traffic. Long-distance lines run on both sides of the Rhine via Cologne. Therefore, the station situated on the left (western) bank of the Rhine is connected to Köln Messe/Deutz station situated on the right (eastern) bank of the Rhine via the Hohenzollern Bridge. Long-distance trains connect in

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2142-550: Was a combined terminus and through station: it included four terminating tracks for the RhE running to the west, while the CME had two through tracks connected to its line on the eastern side of the Rhine by the Cathedral Bridge. The station quickly reached capacity, but the RhE as operator had only limited interest in developing the station, as this would have mainly benefited competing companies. Serious planning for an enlarged station

2193-501: Was also part of the redesign. The trains were hauled by similarly painted locomotives of Class 218 . The modernised rolling stock and the fixed hourly services led to a considerable increase in passengers. From 1985 the new City-Bahn rakes ran from Cologne to Gummersbach, and sometimes onwards via Marienheide to Meinerzhagen ; however this only lasted until May 1986, then they only went as far as Marienheide, and from May 1987 only to Gummersbach again. The second City-Bahn route

2244-494: Was debate as to whether the main station should be rebuilt on the site of the Gereon freight yard—now the site of MediaPark . Therefore, the reconstruction of the main railway station was a slow process and for a decade Cologne station included temporary structures. The first building occurred in 1953 with the demolition of the long building on the western side, which was replaced by a modern building with baggage handling facilities and

2295-427: Was decided that the station should be extended by 2019 with an S-Bahn platform with two S-Bahn tracks at Breslauer Platz. The estimated cost would amount to €60 million. It is planned to extend the platform for track 1 to provide a secure area for checking passenger and baggage to enable ICE trains to run to London-St Pancras in 2016. It will be operationally difficult for trains departing towards London to cross all

2346-629: Was extended to Köln-Worringen , where the S-Bahn line has a grade-separated connection with the main line, and line S 11 continues to Neuss. This was the beginning of the integration of the Rhine-Ruhr and the Rhine-Sieg S-Bahn networks. From west to east, the Left Lower Rhine line was crossed by now disused railways in Goch , Geldern and Kempen . The North Brabant-German Railway Company (Dutch: Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij , NBDS) built

2397-488: Was formerly operated by DB Regio NRW, using push-pull trains that are composed of four double-deck coaches hauled by class 112 electric locomotives . Since December 2015, it has been operated by National Express using Bombardier Talent 2 electric multiple units . The Niers-Express services were taken over by NordWestBahn in December 2009, and are operated using one to three part LINT 41 diesel multiple units with

2448-621: Was opened between Cologne and Neuss by the Cologne-Crefeld Railway Company (originally spelt in German as the Cöln-Crefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , CCE) on 15 November 1855 and extended to Krefeld —on the original direct route via Fischeln —on 26 January 1856. The current route via Krefeld-Oppum was opened on 23 August 1866. The Rhenish Railway Company ( Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , RhE) entered into

2499-478: Was put into operation. In 1879 this line was connected to the Dutch rail network in Arnhem . From 18 September 1965 the section between Kleve and the border was reduced from double track to single track. No passenger trains have run on the line to Nijmegen since 1991 and the line has been out of service since 1999. Freight operations have been closed between Kleve and Kranenburg since 31 December 1991. Since 27 April 2008,

2550-608: Was the Lower Elbe Railway ( Niederelbebahn ), where trains ran between Hamburg and Stade . Because the line is electrified, Class 141 locomotives were employed. In the same year City-Bahn trains were also deployed to the area of Hanover and from 1989 in the Saarland . However the specially converted Silberling coaches did not appear here until 1990. In 1995 the City-Bahn services were renamed Stadt-Express , later Regionalbahn and RegionalExpress trains superseded

2601-673: Was therefore only taken after the nationalisation of the railways in Prussia in the 1880s. For the planning of the new central station two options were considered: While the Prussian government argued for the second option, opinion in Cologne was split. On 9 January 1883, the Cologne City Council decided by one vote, finally, for the second option under a plan by the engineer E. Grüttefien of Berlin . Construction began in 1889. The tracks were raised by six metres (19 ft 8 in) with half

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